(2006-02-28) — With his characteristic optimism, President George Bush said today that his 34 percent approval rating in the latest CBS News poll, an all-time low for his presidency, could be worse.
“I’m concerned, but I’m not pulling my hair out,” said Mr. Bush. “After all, it could be worse — I could be as unpopular as the CBS Evening News.”
Indeed, the flagship CBS News production languishes at the bottom of the network news heap, with a mere 10 percent share of a rapidly-dwindling audience of increasingly-older viewers — average age 61.2 years.
“When you think about it, CBS News is even less popular than Dick Cheney,” the president said, adding, “That’s harsh.”
According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the share of televisions tuned to one of the network evening news programs has plunged almost 50 percent since 1980, despite population growth and expanding paychecks for the news anchors. CBS has led the charge, losing about 12 million viewers and moving from the leader of the big three (ABC, CBS, NBC), to dead last.
“I’ve heard that CBS might pay Katie Couric $13 million a year to do Dan Rather’s old job,” the president said. “I sent them an email saying I could be a cue-card chimp for half that, and give them a ratings bump to boot.”
Any negotiations will have to wait until Mr. Bush’s current contract expires in January 2009.
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1 RightWinged.com // Feb 28, 2006 at 8:25 am
BUSTED: Misleading CBS Poll Says Bush Approval 34%, All Time Low… But Wait…
The Drudge Report has a giant “34%” on the home page right now, just under this picture, obviously supposed to be of a sad President Bush: A similar display can be seen by following the link attached to that “34%”…
2 Small Town Veteran // Feb 28, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Bush Still More Popular Than CBS News
Poll: Bush Still More Popular Than CBS NewsScott Ott (2006-02-28) — With his characteristic optimism, President George Bush said today that his 34 percent approval rating in the latest CBS News poll, an all-time low for his presidency, could be
3 Never Yet Melted » Bush Still More Popular Than CBS News // Mar 1, 2006 at 4:38 pm
[…] notes Scott Ott: With his characteristic optimism, President George Bush said today that his 34 percent approval rating in the latest CBS News poll, an all-time low for his presidency, could be worse.“I’m concerned, but I’m not pulling my hair out,” said Mr. Bush. “After all, it could be worse — I could be as unpopular as the CBS Evening News.” […]
4 NIF // Mar 2, 2006 at 7:44 am
Here’s why
Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Yes, it’s a Wednesday And “The ExpressPay stored-value card system used by FedEx Kinko’s is vulnerable to attack”
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